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Discover unavatar.io, the unified API for resolving user avatars from any social network. New PRO plan for scaling past bot protection and residential proxies.

Master antibot detection at scale. Learn how to bypass Cloudflare, DataDome, and Akamai challenges using Microlink.

Learn how to use the `function` parameter to execute remote JavaScript code. Optimize your API requests by compressing functions using Brotli, Gzip, or lz-string.

Bypass geographic restrictions and IP blacklists with Microlink Proxy. Learn how our automatic rotation layer ensures successful data extraction.

Learn how Microlink Cards uses Monaco Editor, URL-based state management with lz-string compression, and the Microlink API to generate dynamic social images at scale.

Learn how Microlink CDN uses Global Edge Caching to speed up API responses, optimize images with WebP, and save your API quota by serving cached requests for free.

Control a headless browser via API. Use 30+ parameters to automate screenshots, PDFs, metadata extraction, and browser actions without managing infrastructure.

Turn any URL into a high-quality PDF using the Microlink API. Learn how to customize margins, scale, and media types, and serve PDFs directly via our global CDN.

Enhance your link previews with native iframe support in Microlink SDK v4.5. Learn how to embed rich content from Spotify, YouTube, and Instagram using oEmbed.

Experience the next evolution of Microlink with SDK v4.0, featuring a streamlined API and smarter bundling. Plus, explore our new Documentation Portal.

Explore Microlinks 2019 roadmap, featuring the launch of Microlink Query Language (MQL) for advanced scraping, a GraphQL endpoint, and interactive hover previews.

Unlock the power of Microlink Custom Rules to transform our API into a "scraper-as-a-service.".

Learn how to use Microlink Custom Rules to extract specific data from any website by defining jQuery-like selectors, attributes, and data types via API parameters.

Discover Microlink Product Brief, featuring custom User Agent support, optimized video detection parameters, and the major metascraper v3.11 update with Custom Rules.

Explore Microlink SDK v2.0 with improved styling flexibility and expanded video detection for major platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram.

Boost your link previews with Microlink video support, auto-prerendering for 50% faster responses, and new SDK features.

Discover Microlink second product brief, featuring a fresh brand identity, unified documentation portal, and key improvements to metascraper and the SDK.